Summer is magic. Now is the time for books, music, and movies that are magical. Book At this moment, on the McNaughton shelf on M Level, find the stunning novel about […]
New Things, More Ways: Learning How to Live in the E-Book World
In the tangled world of e-books, there are lots of lessons to be learned. Readers are learning: That an e-book you bought this week may not be available for purchase […]
Encyclopedias: Dead AND Alive
By now, most of us have heard the news that the venerable Encyclopaedia Britannica will no longer produce a printed set. For those among us who remember leafing through the […]
Scandinavia: Beyond Dragon Tattoo
Now that Stieg Larssen’s Millennium-trilogy of Swedish mysteries in English translation has been devoured by the reading public and the Hollywood movie version is in the can, it would be easy for […]
Remembering June Fourth
Today marked the 23rd anniversary of the “Tiananmen Incident,” a brutal crackdown by the Chinese government on students’ protest and demonstration on Tiananmen Square on June 4th, 1989. China has […]
Gertrude Stein, Emperor of the Avant-Garde… and Its Aftermath
A funny thing happened on the way to the twentieth century. Literary conventions, along with the artistic conventions native to most forms, came under attack. Anti-convention campaigns across the globe […]
Ouch That Hurts!
Every year the library circulates hundreds of thousands of books. In addition to circulating books, patrons use thousands of books in the library that are not checked out. Usually, the […]
Take Our E-book Survey!
Do you ever read electronic books? Whether your answer is YES or whether it’s NO, if you’re a JHU affiliate, you can take our survey! Your library wants to know […]
Congratulations to this year’s Student Book Collecting Contest winners!
Congratulations to the winners of this year’s Betty and Edgar Sweren Student Book Collecting Contest. The annual competition, endowed in 2007 by longtime Friends of the Libraries Dr. Edgar and Betty Sweren, […]
The 100 Best Business Books of All Time
People sure like to rank things: best rock guitarists, greatest moments in sports, best restaurants in Baltimore. The world of business books has its lists too, and many of the […]